Gustave Louis Chaix of Be-Angel

Gustave Louis Adolphe Victor Aristide Charles Chaix of Be-Angel is a lawyer and man Politique French, born with Rheims the 23 Germinal An VIII (April 11th 1800), died in Paris the December 14th 1876.

Biography

Gustave Louis Chaix of Be-Angel was the son of a public prosecutor close the criminal court of justice of Rheims. His/her parents fixed themselves at Paris after the removal of this court and his/her father left it orphan at nineteen years. After studies with the College of Rheims as stock-broker of the city, it came to finish its studies of right, and was to support his mother and her young sister with 600 francs for any heritage.

A tenor of the bar under the Restoration and the monarchy of July

But its oratorical talent, that it initially put at the service of the liberal cause, was worth to him an early reputation at the bar of Paris where it had been registered as lawyer. He saw himself entrusting several important causes: the business of the events of June 1820, that of the conspiracy of the August 19th of the same year. In 1821, it defended before the Court of the pars and made discharge Charpenay, marked military plot. It wrote a prickly consultation relating to the philosophical publications of colonel Touquet, and its corrosive pleading in the lawsuit of the four sergeants of the La Rochelle completed to establish its reputation.

The lawsuit of Cauchois-Lemaire, continued in 1828 for a letter addressed to the duke of Orleans, provides him the occasion to substitute for delicate points in fact to treat a brilliant thesis of constitutional law, skilfully strewn with references to the English constitution. It still obtained a sharp success in the debate which has occurred, in connection with a question of literary property, between Misters Pouillet and Grosselin. In the business of the parricide Benoit, pleading for the civil part, and painting colors more the sharp the murder of the mother cut the throat of by her son, it almost tore off in full audience a consent with the culprit. It met less sympathies near the public when it asserted, in connection with the part of Victor Hugo, the King has fun , removed by the Censure, the right for the authority to examine the dramatic works as a preliminary; Victor Hugo pled itself his cause, which it lost besides (1832).

Of 1842 with 1844, Chaix of Be-Angel was Bâtonnier about lawyers of the bar of Paris.

A dubious parliamentary career under the monarchy of July

The February 18th 1831, Chaix of Be-Angel was elected appointed by the 3rd electoral district of the Marne (Rheims), to replace Mr. Robert-Lucas, resigner. He voted sometimes with the centers, sometimes with the opposition. But it was not represented with the general elections which took place later a few months. This first and runs passage to the Parliament had not answered the hopes of the liberal party, to consider of it by this extract of one of account-returned Company “Aide you, the sky will help you”: “It appears certain that Mr. Chaix of Be-Angel will not represent himself by the votes of the voters. What missed the young person and brilliance lawyer, is to arrive at the Room with stopped principles, ideas formed on the great questions which agitates and which the national representation solves. It is that it is not enough, to be good deputy, to have pled with talent and patriotism some causes political: the bar and the Room take different forms all and the facility of word so useful for the first is sometimes dangerous for the other. ”

It found the bar until the April 25th 1836, date on which it was elected in Rheims to replace Mr. Leroy-Myou, resigner. Its mandate to him was renewed the November 4th 1837 then the March 2nd 1839. It again left the Room with the general elections of 1842, but the death of its successor, Mr. Houzeau-Muiron, brought back there the November 28th 1844 (414 votes against 344 to Leon Faucher), but it was beaten in 1846.

During the various legislatures of which it formed part, Chaix of Be-Angel assembled several times to the platform. The March 2nd 1837, it made against the law of disjunction a speech which had much repercussion. After having traced the table of misfortunes which would emerge from the adoption of the law, he exclaimed: “In the name of the sky, Sirs, in the name of the justice which is good, which is holy for all, which protects the governments like the individuals, the company like the defendants; in the name of justice itself, made not that! Do not expose our justice; it pure and is respected, it is exposed to weaknesses, errors; but do not multiply the examples that it gives some, and that the public respect which still sticks to it is maintained to him. ” It was still made applaud by the opposition while recalling to Guizot, then Minister for the State education, the words which it had pronounced in 1820 whereas it was in the opposition. In the discussion of the project of address in answer to the speech from the throne (January 14th 1839), he protested against the abandonment of Ancône and against a policy which seemed to him contrary with the dignity of the country. He still spoke on the relative bill with the inland navigation, the questions interesting the literary property, etc

He generally followed in his votes the inspirations of Thiers, which attracted this council of a biographer to him: “That Mr. Chaix of Be-Angel takes guard there: the banner of Mr. Thiers floats a little with any wind, it is a little cut out of wind vane, and turns according to whether the wind of the Castle is with the favor or disgrace. ”

Bright honors under the Second Empire

Under the Second Republic, Chaix of Be-Angel was joined the policy of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1857, it entered the imperial magistrature as public prosecutor close the court of Paris. A little later it was named to advise State (1858), then senator (November 2nd 1862).

The October 18th 1863, it was appointed vice-president of the Council of State then president of the section of Public works and the Art schools (October 6th 1864).

As government commissioner, it had taken part in several important discussions with the legislative Body. In the imperial Senate, it also took part in a certain number of debates: in March 1868, it was him which presented at this assembly the report/ratio on the petition of the catholics requiring the freedom of higher education.

Member and vice-president of the municipal council of Paris, after having been, during the first times of the administration of the Baron Haussmann, the lawyer of the city, it was high with the dignity of Grand Cross of the Légion of honor the August 13rd 1871.

The fall of the Second Empire returned it to the private life.

He was the father of Gustave Chaix of Be-Angel (1832 - 1887), lawyer and appointed under the Second Empire.

References

External bond

Obituary of Chaix of Be-Angel

Portrait on the site www.lavieremoise.free.fr

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